Jonathan P. Hageman
Jonathan P. Hageman, Lumberman; P. O. Plattsville, Ohio.
Mr. Hageman was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, on the 5th day of July, 1830. In 1850 he moved to Shelby County, and located in Green Township, making his home with his brothers William and Simon for several years. On the 17th day of February, 1859, he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Robinson, of Green Township. Miss Robinson was born in Green Township, Shelby County, September 4, 1834. Mr. and Mrs. Hageman settled near Hageman sawmill, where he is now residing. They reared a family of four children, three sons and one daughter. In 1854 Mr. Hageman, in company with two of his brothers, William and George, erected a steam sawmill on the northwest corner of section 17, Green Township. one and a half miles south of Plattsville. The building was fifty by thirty-six feet, and contained a thirty-two horse power engine, with an upright or sash saw, with a capacity for sawing about twenty-five hundred feet per day. The business of manufacturing all kinds of hard wood lumber, including poplar and linn, working under the firm name of Hageman Brothers until 1865, when William sold his interest to J. P., and the firm was then styled Hageman and Brother, and remained as such two years. Then in 1867 George Hageman sold to C. W. Dorsey, and the firm name was Hageman and Dorsey. Mr. Dorsey remained a partner one year, and in 1868 he sold his interest in the mill to Mr. Hageman, who has since that time operated it successfully alone. In 1880 he enlarged his mill to seventy-eight by thirty-six feet, and put in a forty-horse-power engine and a set of circular saws, and it now has the capacity for cutting eight thousand feet of lumber per day by putting on a sufficient force of men to run it steadily. He also manufactures lath, picket palings, etc. etc. He keeps constantly on hand for sale a large stock of lumber, including poplar, linn, all kinds of hard wood lumber, plastering lath, pickets, wagon and buggy materials.
J. P. Hageman Mill
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From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883
